The tax engineering of Ayuso’s couple to optimize their two million commission: from false invoices to deducting taxes on a saxophone

The first two years of the pandemic were fruitful for businessman Alberto González Amador, partner of Isabel Díaz Ayuso. It invoiced 3.7 million euros, of which almost two came from a single operation to mediate a contract for the purchase and sale of masks. And, when the time came to justify those large profits to the Treasury, he tried to deceive the treasury. He did it through a network of false invoices and front companies, but also trying to deduct expenses not related to his professional activity, such as a repair to his Porsche, the purchase of a luxury watch, paddle balls or a saxophone.

Alarm bells went off at the Treasury when its officials discovered that in 2020 his company’s profits had multiplied, but his corporate tax bill had even been reduced. The Tax Agency considered “extremely striking” that that year its turnover grew by almost two million and, however, it paid half the taxes than in 2019. The inspectors pulled the thread and found a corporate nexus based in the Sevillian town of Arahal that had issued invoices to its main company, Maxwell Cremona, for work that had never been carried out. They also located invoices for non-existent or failed projects in Mexico and the Ivory Coast.